Admiral Atkins leads the Athena I project, developing the worlds greatest supercomputer. Its artificial intelligence discovers how to travel through time. Religiously fanatical, Admiral Atkins turns rogue. He leads six Navy SEALs to ancient Jerusalem to rescue Jesus from the Cross. If the SEALs succeed, the unintended consequence is an unrecognizable twenty-first century with continents covered by thick sheets of ice and missing seven billion people. Green Beret Colonel Robert Lake leads a small hunter-killer team of special operations troops drawn from all branches of the US military and the British SAS to intercept the SEALs. Two civilian expertsa brilliant but eccentric professor and a beautiful master linguistcomplete the team. A ruthless CIA zealot, sympathetic to the SEALs, penetrates the hunter-killer team, bent on destroying them from within. How will the Green Berets and marines match up against the deadly SEALs? How are modern weapons neutralized in close combat by Roman edged weapons? Will the temptations of the flesh in ancient Jerusalem corrupt the hot-blooded marines? What will happen when the SEALs form a relationship with Judas? Who could be opposed to saving Jesus? Will the hunter-killer team turn on Colonel Lake to aid the SEALs in their holy mission? Is the past immutable or merely fluid consciousness open to alternate histories?

After years as a poster boy for space station children, Bill Smiths orderly life is turned inside out by events that defy rational reason. His natural pension for physical interaction with fellow crew members and his innate technical abilities are strained to the breaking point in his need to protect his sanity, if not his actual life. To overcome what appear to be impossible odds and a clear organized conspiracy at the highest levels of government, Bill and his nemesis, Juanita Alvarez, become entangled in a roller-coaster ride of stress and emotional involvement, bordering on a criminal conspiracy of their own. What appears to be wrong becomes right, what appears to be bad becomes good, and what appears to be legal becomes truly illegal. In this epic battle of right and wrong, our characters moral and physical strengths are tested to the breaking point. In the end, the never-ending struggle of all living things to exist and prosper is confirmed without regard for mankinds concept of right or wrong. Open the front cover, immerse yourself in the unfolding story, and pray for a revelation. I think you will find it very hard to put down.

For the Christian faith, questions relating to God can essentially be viewed as centred on the person of Jesus Christ. In The New Testament Concept of Atonement, H.D. McDonald uses this key insight to examine mankind’s redemption, focussing on Christ’s atoning act as crucial in shaping God’s relation to humanity and the world. McDonald analyses elements which hold vital meanings and messages for the Christian doctrine of salvation. In the first six chapters he investigates single terms within the New Testament, such as ‘tree’ or ‘blood’ whose metonymical association with Christ’s redeeming act has often become obscured over time. Then, various biblical interpretations of the Calvary event are studied. In the final section, he analyses the importance of the findings in previous chapters and their implications for Christology. Detailed research underpins the text, in the tradition of Reformed biblical scholarship, with care taken to suggest further reading and trace sources.